Motivational Quotes

Death

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Death

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Donne, John

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Nepos, Cornelius

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

10.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

Carson, Johnny

12.

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

13.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Bryant, William C.

14.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

15.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

16.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

19.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Hook, Sydney

20.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

22.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

24.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

25.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

26.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

27.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Cocteau, Jean

28.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Dryden, John

29.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

30.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Marx, Groucho

31.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

32.

If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying.

Palmer, Laura

33.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Arnold, Matthew

35.

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

37.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

38.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

40.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Bayly, Joseph

42.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

43.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Allen, Woody

44.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

45.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Montesquieu, Charles De

46.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

Bhagavad Gita

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Bronte, Emily

49.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

Osborne, John

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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De